The President-Elect: Boundless & Endless

By plane, train and automobile the leaders and the led, the great and the grateful converged in the Kennedy villa at Palm Beach last week. They talked jobs, patronage, budget, legislation, inauguration, and between sessions discovered that life with the Kennedys is something like life on a trampoline.

First to be bounced in were Vice President-elect Johnson and Lady Bird in their private Convair. Typically, some body fouled up the schedule, and LBJ had to wait for 30 minutes in his plane before the welcoming committee arrived. And then there was added bustle:...

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